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Ahead of the Government’s annual mini-Budget at the beginning of December, Alistair Craig, Parliamentary Spokesman for Greenwich & Woolwich this week backed new Conservative proposals to cut the level of tax on low and middle income earners in Greenwich. A new consultation paper proposes a number of ways in which more people on lower incomes can be taken out of tax completely, and how many on middle incomes can be freed from having to pay punitive, top rates of income tax.

Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Greenwich & Woolwich, Alistair Craig, today highlighted new figures exposing the soaring expenditure of asylum by local councils. Across England, under the current Government, local councils’ spending on asylum has reached over £140 per household. In Greenwich since 1997 a total of £50,914,585* has been spent on the asylum crisis.

Alistair Craig, Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Greenwich & Woolwich today backed new plans to extend home ownership in Greenwich. New Conservative policies would mean extra support for ‘shared ownership’ schemes; allow social tenants to buy a stake in their home; and make it easier for housing associations to build more affordable housing. This will help those who currently cannot afford to get on the housing ladder.